March 1903 How I Became a Socialist
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- Revolution and Other Essays – Jack London
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910
First Edition. Fine - Signed Check to “The Socialist” March 6, 1906
Socialist Labor Party – Encapsulated – PSA Certified.
Very Good - The Comrade Magazine – March 1903
How I Became a Socialist
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Jack London joined the Socialist Labor Party in April 1896. That same year, the San Francisco Chronicle published a story about how the 20-year-old London was out nightly in Oakland’s City Hall Park, giving speeches on socialism to the crowds, an activity for which he was arrested in 1897. He left the Socialist Labor Party and joined the new Socialist Party of America in 1901, when he also ran as the high-profile Socialist nominee for mayor of Oakland. His bid was unsuccessful, as it was again in 1905. London’s 1903 essay ‘How I Became a Socialist,’ explains how his views were influenced by his experience working laborious, low-paying jobs.
“Socialism became a fulcrum for Jack London upon which to rest his lever to move the world. For not only did the gospel according to Karl Marx develop intellectual curiosity of the highest type in him; it led to a conviction that he possessed power, through the working class, to destroy those who had made rules by which he was condemned to mean drudgery in a factory.”
Jack London had a professional and political relationship with Upton Sinclair. Jack promoted the Jungle with a pamphlet and ads titled: “Circulate ‘The Jungle.” Jack London was active in politics and in 1905 joined with Upton Sinclair to form the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. London was also a member of the American Socialist Party.
List of Works Cited
Footloose in Arcadia: A Personal Record of Jack London, George Sterling, Ambrose Bierce.
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